Eliahu Endler, Link for Aaron Solomon and to the Quebec City Community

Eliahu Endler, A Destination Relative and Leader in His Community

   

There is so much value in finding and noting the names of the people our relatives are heading for in their new country.  The Border Crossing of Aaron Solomon showed that he gave my great grandfather's brother, Eliahu Endler as his cousin, his contact relative, in Canada. This was a surprise as Aaron's wife's brother  lived in Bathurst, New Brunswick.

That curiosity about her great grandfather's contact led Deb to e-mail me.! How great it is when our relatives connect us to special people we would never have encountered otherwise!! I am incredibly grateful to her for sharing so much of her genealogy skills and knowledge with me.

The research that Deb did resulted in finding out more about what Eliahu's life was like. It is the out of the ordinary articles like these below that deepen our understanding of what our ancestors were interested in. It goes beyond the names and dates that we begin with. This sure adds an extra dimension to what genealogy is all about!

In Feb 1908, Eli and other Quebec merchants were going to apply at the next session of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec for an act incorporating them as a religious corporation, a synagogue in Quebec City.

Eli was a subscriber to books such as one called, " Great Epochs in American History: Described by Famous Writers" I wonder what languages he was able to speak and read.

He was one of the Canadian buyers at a Fur Auction in 1918 in New York City.

He was part of a meeting at the synagogue in Quebec City in May 1920. Eli was a committee member offering support for the rebuilding of Israel. The Jews of the Quebec City synagogue gave $8000 to the Restoration Fund for Palestine.

My great grandfather didn't immigrate and I don't know anything about him. Eliahu Endler, his brother, was the closest I got to that generation.

Samuel David Endler

 

A Petition for US Naturalization

Samuel David Endler was the son of Eliahu  Endler. I discovered him in the Quebec City 1911 Census with his sister Ida, his father Elia who sponsored my grandfather and his mother Rebecca Leah Lurstin. He was a first cousin of my grandfather's and lived until 19 Sep 1975. I could have known about him and his sister Ida but he was another relative of mystery. What is intriguing is that he shared a name with my father, David. They were both named after someone in the past, an ancestor whom I have not found.

Sometimes records can give us so much information. Samuel David's Petition for Naturalization proved to be so valuable. This document gave his birth date,  1 Aug 1897 and  his residence at 1050 Park Ave in New York. His last foreign residence was Quebec. He entered the US through Jackson, Maine on the vessel called Kennebec Highway on 16 Aug 1932.  What was especially interesting was finding out his occupation, a biological chemist and that he was married to Edith on 28 Jun 1932 in Brooklyn.

  Edith was born 27 Dec 1907 in Brooklyn, New York. New York is also given as her birth place in the 2 Jan 1946 New York Passenger Lists.

Two newspaper articles announcing their engagement and wedding gave me her maiden name, Richards and the name of her father Bernard Richards.

 There is a 15 May 1918 WWl Draft Application which  gives Sam's father, Elie at 64 St Dominique St, Quebec City as his contact. This record describes Sam as 5' 4". He was 20 years, 9 months and was not in active militia service.

For an unknown reason, Sam is listed as living with his sister, Ida and her husband Benjamin Eliasoph and their sons James and Ira in the 1940 Census. Sam's wife, Edith is not listed in the home.

Sam died 19 Sep 1975 in Dade, Florida. Edith died 5 Nov 1996 in Palm Beach, Florida.

A great granddaughter of  Frank Dermansky who was Sam's step brother, remembers when Edith visited Frank's daughter Gladys every summer and that her family visited Edith in Newport, Rhode Island.  "Edith loved a highball in the morning and was usually off her rocker by noon. She was a loving and hilarious woman with a great sense of humor. "

How great it would be to discover someone who would share memories and pictures of  Samuel David and his side of the Endler family.

Frank Dermansky

Frank Dermansky


     Fanny Pearl Berger







Frank Dermansky, born 30 Sep 1886 married Fanny Pearl Berger, born 1886 (alternate date 1891).

They had 2 daughters Bessie, born 9 Jan 1914 and Gladys, born 18 Jul 1917. Their only son Nathan Issac, born 6 Jun 1921 died at 9 months of pneumonia, 10 Mar 1922.

Frank worked as a dry goods merchant.

Brian Ferstman  was the person from Jewish Family Finder, Jewishgen who solved the mystery of who Frank was in the 1911 Census, living with Eliahu Endler.
 

Brian told me that according to Moe, the son of  Frank's mother's brother, Jack Lurstin, the crash of 1929 destroyed Frank, He had invested in the market, or maybe bank deposits that were not guaranteed. Frank committed suicide by asphyxiation, 2 Mar 1930 at Matane, Quebec and is buried at St Cyrille Bonaire, Quebec.

Frank, also known as Faivish/ Philip, was adopted by Eliahu Endler. His father, Isaak Leib ( Itzhak Yehuda ) died in 1888 in Polonnoye, Ukraine when Frank was only 2. His mother, Rebecca Leah Lurstin was born 20 Jun 1870 and died 20 Feb 1937. Her father, Sherga Faivsh Lurstein, had a granite quarry. Brian Ferstman was told that Leah and Jack had 12 siblings, supposedly all girls.